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Junie Halloway

You pre-laugh

Wrote her first album in a car outside her ex-best-friend's house

the numbers

bpm
152
key
C# major
energy
0.69
dance
0.95
valence
0.59
vocal at
7.3s
length
2:46
language
En

lyrics

You grin at the punchline

Before I reach the end

Half-burned fries in the red tray

You already start to bend

My phone's on the counter

Face-down by the keys

You snort through your soda

Like you read my every tease

You know the bend, you know the break

Your shoulders shake before it lands

I watch your mouth beat me to it

Hands still wrapped around my can

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You ruin the joke

Before I even try

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At Bixby Knolls bowling

You giggle at frame three

Shoe laces in the parking lot

Knot tight around your knees

The ketchup on your thumb

The gum stuck in your hair

You know what's coming next, babe

And you act like you don't care

You know the bend, you know the break

Your shoulders shake before it lands

I watch your mouth beat me to it

Hands still wrapped around my can

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You ruin the joke

Before I even try

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You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

I tried to keep it straight-faced

In the checkout line at Vons

But you saw it in my eyebrows

Before the words were gone

So I throw the next line sideways

You catch it mid-air, dead on

And you laugh like you lived there

Like the answer was on

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You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You ruin the joke

Before I even try

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

You pre-laugh

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You pre-laugh — Junie Halloway · FERAL